una aventura

Date: Nov 3
Mileage: 20
Ride type: commute
Bike: 9.2.5 fixie
Temp: 25/46 p.m.
November mileage: 37.5
Year to date: 1850.5

an even colder start today, arriving at school at the ripe temp of 25. actually i'm sort of glad how it went in that i though the radio had mentioned "30", but found 25 listed on weather.com when i arrived. i dressed better for the top this a.m., but only had 1 layer on my legs.

this p.m., especially being a friday, i decided to heed Jim's advice and make today un dia de aventura. i didn't really have anything in mind, but since i'd missed so much of october, i need to get some goofy miles in the legs. instead of the usual westerly/riverwalk thing, i headed toward the track, Churchill Downs track that is. it's the bastion of the original South End, and the recent updates and construction have made the buildings there even larger and more ominous. once around that general area, i then decided to make a "'round the Downs" route, playing in and out of the parking lots. just prior to making the main area, i said "my, lots of folks go to the track on fridays, knowing that my workfriend Tim was going too." then i saw the sign "Breeders Cup", which is 2nd only to the Derby, and maybe the other Triple Crown races.

i then headed moreorless over to the Kentucky Fair and Expo Center. why? don't know. it just seemed a way to link up with a way more towards home. in discussing "home", let it be known that i was on the fixie today, so my routes were slightly controlled by this fact. i did my second "tour of", this time around the KFEC on the ring road.

that put in near Audabon Pk. the 3rd aventura aspect of the day came to pass mostly as a means of avoiding steep climbing on the fixie. i trapsed through Joe Creason Nature Preserve, on foot pushing steed, until coming to appropriate riding place, and then wound my way through neighborhood. didn't have camera. didn't capture images. BUT did have great, low key, mileage day doing this and that on fixie. gonna move to drop bars and bigger tires on LHT at some point soon. don't know if that's the key to the world, but gonna start there.

(and sorry for rotten pic above...i'm at a loss)